The Jinn Bot Of Shantiport

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250827524

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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu Pdf

Highly anticipated in BookBub | Library Journal | Goodreads | Tor.com | We Are Bookish | The Portalist | The Fantasy Review | SFF Yeah! “So much fun!”–Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure with heart that reads like a mash-up of “Aladdin” and Murderbot—with gloriously chaotic results Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren’t helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born. Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance to leave this dead-end planet and explore the universe on his own terms. But that would mean abandoning the family he loves—even if they do take him for granted. When Shantiport's resident tech billionaire coerces Lina into retrieving a powerful artifact rumored to be able to reshape reality, forces from before their time begin coalescing around the siblings. And when you throw in a piece of sentient, off-world tech with the ability to grant three wishes into the mix... None of the city's powers will know what hit them. Also by Samit Basu The City Inside At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0144000776

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The Simoqin Prophecies by Samit Basu Pdf

India'S First Ever Sff (Science Fiction/Fantasy) Genre Novel In English The Simoqin Prophecies Marks The Debut Of An Assured New Voice. Written With Consummate Ease And Brimming With Wit And Allusion, It Is At Once Classic Sff And Subtle Spoof, Featuring Scantily Clad Centauresses, Flying Carpets, Pink Trolls, Belly Dancers And Homicidal Rabbits. Monty Python Meets The Ramayana, Alice In Wonderland Meets The Lord Of The Rings And Robin Hood Meets The Arabian Nights In This Novel A Breathtaking Ride Through A World Peopled By Different Races And Cultures From Mythology And History. The Prophecies Foretell The Reawakening Of The Terrible Rakshas, Danh-Gem, And The Arrival Of A Hero To Face Him. But Heroes Do Not Appear Magically Out Of Nowhere; They Have To Be Found And Trained. And Sometimes The Makers Of Prophecies Don'T Know Everything They Need To Know... As The Day Of Danh-Gem'S Rising Draws Closer And The Chosen Hero Is Sent On A Quest, Another Young Man Learns Of Terrible Things He Must Do In Secret And The Difficult Choices He Must Make In Order To Save The World From The Rakshas. Drawn From A Variety Of Sources Ranging From Greek And Indian Epics To Spy Novels, Fairy Tales To Superhero Comics, The Simoqin Prophecies Is A Compelling Tale, Marked By Meticulous Plotting And Artful Storytelling A Page-Turner Sure To Grip You From Start To Finish.

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250827494

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The City Inside by Samit Basu Pdf

A Best SFF of 2022 pick by The Washington Post | Book Riot | Quill to Live The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. “They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.” Joey is a Reality Controller in near-future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life. Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy and powerful family, now living in an impoverished immigrant neighborhood. When his father’s death pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted. But as Joey and Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out of control—complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty, and the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. When a bigger picture begins to unfold, they must each decide how to do the right thing in a world where simply maintaining the status quo feels like an accomplishment. Ultimately, resistance will not—cannot—take the same shape for these two very different people. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781161210

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Turbulence by Samit Basu Pdf

Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn't have the right connections--but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman's flight now has extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires. Vir, a pilot, can now fly. Uzma, an aspiring Bollywood actress, now possesses infinite charisma. And then there's Jai, an indestructible one-man army with a good old-fashioned goal -- to rule the world! Aman wants to ensure that their new powers aren't wasted on costumed crime-fighting, celebrity endorsements, or reality television. He wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others. Will it all end, as 80 years of superhero fiction suggest, in a meaningless, explosive slugfest? Turbulence features the 21st-century Indian subcontinent in all its insane glory--F-16s, Bollywood, radical religious parties, nuclear plants, cricket, terrorists, luxury resorts, crazy TV shows -- but it is essentially about two very human questions. How would you feel if you actually got what you wanted? And what would you do if you could really change the world?

Author : Mark Bould,Andrew M. Butler,Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040042953

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The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by Mark Bould,Andrew M. Butler,Sherryl Vint Pdf

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies. This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Fantasy fiction, Indic (English)
ISBN : 0144000679

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Manticore's Secret : Gameworld Trilogy 2 by Samit Basu Pdf

Being A Hero Isn T Easy But It S A Lot Easier Than Being A Dark Lord. Dark Forces Just Aren T What They Used To Be In The Good Old Days. The Manticore S Secret Is The Spellbinding Sequel To The Simoqin Prophecies: Part One Of The Gameworld Trilogy. Once Again Samit Basu Creates A Mesmeric Landscape Bursting With Weird And Wonderful Characters And A Gripping Narrative That S Complex, Playful, Sometimes Sombre But Always Dazzlingly Inventive. A Mysterious Dark Lord And His Grotesque Army Threaten All That Is Good On Earth& Or Do They? The Heroic Immortals Who Vanquished His Rakshas Father Long Ago Have Returned To Do Battle With The Forces Of Evil, Which Is Good News& Or Is It? In The Shadows A Secret Society Of Shapeshifters Battles Deadly Mind-Controlling Foes Who Threaten History, Humanity And The Future Of The Planet. A Beautiful, Amoral Rakshasi Plots World Domination While A Strangely Civilized Barbarian Fights To Save The World. But The World Is Spinning Out Of Control. Because The Gods Are Back. And They Want To Play&

Author : Nicole Kornher-Stace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982142759

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Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace Pdf

"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side. Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis's wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game's rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal - looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mal's sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife's developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she's only experienced through her avatar."--Publisher's description

Author : Nino Cipri
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250787507

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Defekt by Nino Cipri Pdf

Winner of the British Fantasy Award! Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award! Find out if five Dereks are better than one in Nino Cipri's Defekt, the sequel to Finna, the surrealist world-hopping adventure. Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. An excellent employee like Derek, an employee made to work at LitenVärld, shouldn't need time off. To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift, hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests with pincers and eye stalks, ambulatory sleeper sofas, killer mutant toilets, that kind of thing. Helping him is the inventory team — four strangers who look and sound almost exactly like him. Are five Dereks better than one? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Stephanie Burgis
Publisher : Regency Dragons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 173911762X

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Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis Pdf

Sensible, practical Elinor Tregarth really did plan to be the model poor relation when she moved into her aunt and uncle's house. She certainly never meant to kidnap her awful cousin Penelope's pet dragon. She never expected to fall in love with the shameless - but surprisingly sweet - fortune hunter who came to court Penelope, either. And she never dreamed that she would have to enter into an outrageous magical charade to save her younger sisters' futures. However, even the most brilliant scholars of 1817 England still haven't ferreted out all the lurking secrets of rediscovered dragonkind...and even the most sensible of heroines can still make a reckless wish or two when she's pushed. Now Elinor will have to find out just how rash and resourceful she can be when she sets aside all common sense. Maybe, just maybe, she'll even be impractical enough to win her own true love and a happily ever after...with the unpredictable and dangerous "help" of the magical creature who has adopted her. A frothy Regency rom-com full of pet dragons and magical misadventures, Scales and Sensibility is a full-length novel and the first in a new series of standalone romantic comedies.

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789386797827

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Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu Pdf

She’d decided, that night, that she wouldn’t leave. That she would stay in India, in Delhi, and belong as hard as she could. Joey is a Reality Controller, in charge of the livestream of a charismatic and problematic celebrity in smog-choked, water-short, ever-transforming Delhi - a city on the brink of revolution, under the shadow of multiple realities and catastrophes - at the end of the 2020s. When Joey impulsively rescues a childhood friend, Rudra, from his new-elite family and the comfortable, horrific life they have chosen for him, she sets into motion a chain of events — a company takeover, a sex scandal, a series of betrayals — that disintegrates not just their public and private selves, but the invisible walls that divide the city around them. To find the lives they need, Joey and Rudra must reckon with people and forces beyond their understanding, in a world where trust is impossible, popularity is conformity, and every wall has eyes.

Author : Robert K. Tanenbaum
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504090575

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Echoes of My Soul by Robert K. Tanenbaum Pdf

From the New York Times–bestselling author, a thrilling true crime story of grisly murder, police corruption, and an attorney’s work to save an innocent man. In 1963, Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were just two young women living on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Then one muggy day in August, an intruder made his way into their apartment where he raped and murdered them. Months passed before the police had a suspect in custody. His name was George Whitmore Jr., a nineteen-year-old Black man with an IQ of less than 70. After giving a confession, Whitmore was convicted and incarcerated, but Asst. DA Mel Glass was not so certain of the young man’s guilt . . . In Echoes of My Soul, bestselling author and renowned prosecutor Robert K. Tanenbaum delves into the historic case of the “Career Girls Murders.” He examines the brutal crime and the troubling investigation, full of law enforcement missteps and cover-ups. The author also details the story of an ADA who placed his career on the line to free an innocent man whose story would ultimately go on to influence the American justice system. “A strong candidate to become a true crime classic. . . . Brilliantly written and unfailingly riveting.” —Vincent Bugliosi, author and prosecutor of the Manson Family Tate–LaBianca murders “Echoes of My Soul has the excitement of a great work of fiction and it is not ‘based’ upon a real case. It is a real case and it is about a real hero.” —Mark Lane, attorney and civil rights activist “A compelling, page turning, disturbing true story.” —Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9383260246

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Local Monsters by Samit Basu Pdf

Author : Samit Basu
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8129132753

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The Adventures of Stoob by Samit Basu Pdf

A Children's Bookshelf Selection: Each month our editor's pick the best books for children and young adults by age to be a part of the children's bookshelf. These are editorial recommendations made by our team of experts. Our monthly reading list includes a mix of bestsellers and top new releases and evergreen books that will help enhance a child's reading life.

Author : Prashanth Srivatsa
Publisher : Voyager
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008616329

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The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa Pdf

Delve into this debut fantasy and journey through the Spice Gates as Amir, a young man born with the ability to travel between the eight kingdoms, unravels the power that keeps the world in balance, perfect for readers of Saara El-Arifi's The Ending Fire Trilogy, S.A. Chakraborty's Daevabad Trilogy and Andrea Stewart's The Drowning Empire. 'A magnificent feast of a world' Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi 'What a story! I think a lot of epic fantasy fans ... will really enjoy this one' Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters How far would you go to find home? Relics of a mysterious god, the Spice Gates connect the eight far-flung kingdoms, each separated by a distinct spice and only accessible by those born with a special mark. This is not a mark of distinction, but one of subjugation: Spice Carriers suffer the lashes of their rich masters and the jolting pain of the Gates themselves. Amir is a Spice Carrier dreaming of escape. But something is stirring in the inhospitable spaces between the kingdoms. As Amir makes his plan for freedom, he's drawn into a plot that threatens to unravel the power keeping the gates in balance. Gods, assassins and thronekeepers all have a vested interest in the spice trade, and Amir will have to decide what kind of world he wants to live in ... if the world survives at all. 'The Spice Gate invites readers on a spellbinding journey. Srivatsa's storytelling prowess shines ... a must-read for fantasy aficionados' Taran Matharu, New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Rider 'Rich, complex worldbuilding, ambitious scale and characters you'll cherish. A bold, original step forward for South Asia-inspired epic fantasy. I loved The Spice Gate!' Samit Basu, author of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport 'A grand epic fantasy with a fiery core of rage against injustice. This is a book you can taste, where flavour itself is a kind of magic' Vajra Chandrasekera, author of The Saint of Bright Doors